Improvement in quill-winding machines



YVILLIAM P. UIILINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMPRCVEMNT IN QUlLL-WINDING VACHlN'ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 50,377, dated April 28, 1874 application filed l March 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM PUHLINGER,

of Philadelphia, in the count-y of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Quill -Winders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of my quill-Winder. Fig. 2 is an ond view of the same, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

This invention has relation to machines for winding threads on quills. It consists in means which will positively hold a quill on its spindle, in combination with a universal bearing for one end of the spindle, and a free vertical guide for the other end thereof, whereby the drum, to which the spindle is secured, is free to roll on the periphery of its driving-wheel, and at the same time the spindle and its drum are readily applied to, and removed from, their frame, as will be hereinafter explained. My invention also consists in arranging the spindle, when it is in a posi.- tion for winding, obliqucly to the axis of the driving-wheel shaft, for the purpose of keeping the quill engaged with its retaining-stud, as will behereinafter explained.

The following is a description of my ii provements.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the frame of aquill-winding machine, B, the main driving-shaft, and C the driving -wheeL In practice, the frame and shaft will be made quite long, and a number of wheels, @,will be applied on said shaft,for the purpose of winding a number of quills at one and the same time. D D designate brackets, which are rigidly secured to the frame A, and extended out horizontally over the driving-shaft B. In the outer end of the bracket D a vertical recess is made, and intended for receiving a ballbearing, a, through which a hole is made for receiving one end of a quill-spindle, E. This bearing is held with more or less friction by means of a spring, b, which is applied in a recess formed into a cap, c, secured on the bracket D. This ball a affords an articulating bearing for one end of the quill-spindle, and allows this spindleto be quickly and conveniently adjusted into position for winding, and readily removed from this position when the winding is completed. That side of the bracket D which is opposite the ball-bearing a has two grooves,c c', made vertically into it, one of which grooves, c, affords a guide for that end of the spindle E which is next the drum G, and allows this drum by its own gravity to bear on the periphery of the driving-wheel C. The spindle can be readily lifted out of or applied in the groove c. rlhe groove c, which is quite shallow, is intended to receive the end of the spindlewhen the latter is not in use, and holds it elevated, so that its drum will not touch the surface of the wheel C. J designates an eccentric for lifting the drum G free from the periphery of the wheel G by acting on the thread of a lled quill.

This feature of lifting the spindle-drum, when the last course of thread has been wound on a quill,is not new with me, and is not herein claimed.

The quill Q has a small hole, i, in each end; and when this quill is applied on the spindle E one of these holes will receive a stud, j,

xed to the end of the drum G, thus engaging the quill with the spindle. By reference to Fig. 1,the dotted line :m2, passing through the axis of the spindle, and the dotted line y y, passing through the axis of the shaft C, indicate that the axes are not parallel, and that the spindle is oblique to the shaft C. The object of this arrangement is to keep one end of the quill constantly ruiming against the y ball-bearing c, which bearing is very smooth, so that there will be very little friction and wear on the impinging end of the quill.

It will be seen that I am enabled to apply the quills loosely on the spindles and keep theqnills in one given position while ruiming, thereby doing perfect winding, and allowingl a ready application of the quills to the spindles without liability of breaking or bending the latter.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a quill-Winder, the bracket D having the ball-bearing a for supporting one end of In testimony tha-t claim the above I have the quill-spindle7 combined with the bracket hereunto subscribed my name in the presence l) having the free guide for the opposite end of tWo Witnesses.

of said spindle, substantially as described. VILLIAM P. UHLINGER.

2. The spindle E and its drum G, arranged Witnesses:

obliquely to Iche exis of' Jfhe wheel C, substml- GEORGE E'. UPHAM,

tially as described. ROBERT EVERETTA 

